Spindle-driving arrangement for spinning, doubling, and twisting machines for yarns and threads of fibrous substitutes.



J. H. FALLOWS.

SPINDLE DRIVING ARRANGEMENT FOR SPINNiNG, oousuwe, AND TWISTING MACHINESFOR YABNS AND THREADS OF FIBROUS SUBSTANCES.

APPLICATION FILED SEPTIZO, 19H.

1,25%;501. Patented Mar. 19, 1918.

JOSEPH HENRY FALLOWS, 0F BLACKBURN, ENGLAND.

SPINDLE-DRIVING ARRANGEMENT FOR SPINNING, DOUBLING, AND TWISTINGMACHINES FOR YARNS AND THREADS OF FIBROUS SUB-STITUTES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 19, 1918.

Application filed September 20, 1917. Serial No. 192,375.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Josnri-I HENRY FAL- Lows, a subject of the King ofGreat Britain, residing at 3 Ewood, Blackburn, in the county ofLancaster, England, have invented certain new and useful ImprovementsRelating to Spindle-Driving Arrangements for Spinning, Doubling, andTwisting Machines for Yarns and Threads of Fibrous Substances, of whichthe following is the specification.

This invention relates to spinning, doubling and twisting yarns orthreads of fibrous substances and to that type of apparatus in which aring and traveler are mounted upon or carried by an independ entlydriven tube, cylinder or its equivalent that is rotatably mounted on astationary sleeve through which the spindle passes and is driven by awhirl and driving band in any appropriate manner. The present inventionhas for its chief object to provide an improved form of compensatingdrive between the cylinders which rotate the spindles and the carriers.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is an end elevation and Fig. 2 a

front elevation of part of a spinning frame provided'with a compensatingdrive between the cylinders which rotate the spindles and the carriers.

A indicates one of the carriers and 0 one of the spindles.

The spindles C and carriers A may be cross frame (Z which connects thelifter rails D and supported in a bearing (Z on one cross frame abovethe chain wheel 0 and to one side thereof is another chain wheel (ZMounted below and to one side of this wheel on a stud which may beattached to some stationary part of the frame is another chain wheel F.Above wheel F is a chain wheel F for guiding the chain after leavingwheel F. Passing around these chain wheels is an endless chain f whichpasses from the top cylinder chain wheel a to the bottom cylinder chainwheel 0 under the latter, over the chain wheel (Z that rises and fallstherewith, then under the wheel F on the stationary stud and back to theupper cylinder chain wheel a. By this arrangement during the lifting andlowering of the two chain wheels (Z 0 on the lifter rail frame (Z onewheel gives ofl what the other wheel takes up and an even tension ismaintained upon the chain during all positions of the bottom drivingcylinder 0 WVhat I claim as my invention and desire to secure by LettersPatent of the United States is 1. In apparatus for spinning, doubling,and twisting yarns or threads of fibrous substances, in which a spindleand carrier are driven from two separate cylinders one of which can riseand fall, a pulley rigidly connected with each cylinder, a pulleyarranged to rise and fall with the rising and falling cylinder, a pulleymounted on a stationary bearing, a flexible driving connection passingfrom the top cylinder pulley to the bottom cylinder pulley, under thelatter, over the pulley that rises and falls therewith, under the pulleyon the stationary stud and back to the upper cylinder pulley.

2. In apparatus for spinning, doubling and twisting yarns or threads offibrous substances, a carrier driving cylinder mounted in stationarybearings, a spindle drivin cylinder mounted in hearings in a cross rameconnecting the lifter rails, a chain wheel rigidly fiXed on eachcylinder axle, a chain wheel rotatable on a stud carried by the crossframe, a chain wheel rotatable on a stationary stud and a chain passingfrom the top cylinder chain wheel to the bottom cylinder chain wheel,under the latter, over the chain wheel on the cross frame, under thechain wheel on the stationary stud and back to the upper cylinder chainwheel.

In testimony whereof I afiiX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPH HENRY FALLOWS.

lVitnesses CHRISTOPHER IsHERwooD, FREDERICK SPINK.

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